Food is Health

Food is Health

Affordable Nutrition is More than Food

It's about removing friction & seismic systemic redesign

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Ellen Brown
Mar 27, 2025
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Everyone can relate to some degree to the post-holiday “food intake reset”. I don’t overindulge on vacation and I take plenty of steps, but I still indulge in a way that has to have a finite end or I could find myself heading down that slippery slope of sub-optimal eating. I mean who doesn’t enjoy a nutella crepe at a cafe, a gelato in Florence, a glass of champagne at a Brasserie, a pint in a pub, a warm chocolate brioche at the local Boulangerie? You get the idea. Clearly not items that should be the core of a diet that optimizes mitochondrial function… And so this Monday was met with me back in tracking my intake on Cronometer, not just calories, but macronutrients & micronutrients and hitting my targets. Great in theory until you have to plan & cook the actual combo of food that will enable you to hit said targets when you don’t even have time to get to the grocery store let alone figure it all out.

As I sat in the sun (to get my 10 min of “red light” intake - those mitochondria ar…

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